NEC Labs America Attends OFC 2025 in San Francisco
The NEC Labs America Optical Networking and Sensing team is attending the 2025 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), the premier global event for optical networking and communications. Bringing together over 13,500 attendees from 83+ countries, more than 670 exhibitors, and hundreds of sessions featuring industry leaders, OFC 2025 serves as the central hub for innovation and collaboration in the field.
At this year’s conference, NEC Labs America will showcase its cutting-edge research and advancements through multiple presentations, demonstrations, and workshops.
- Technical Conference: 30 March – 03 April 2025
- Exhibition: 01 – 03 April 2025
- Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA
- https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/
Our team will participate in the Open ROADM MSA SDN Integrated Demonstrations, collaborating with industry leaders to highlight a multi-vendor, SDN-controlled optical transport network featuring dynamic wavelength circuit provisioning. This demonstration underscores the power of open software and disaggregated hardware in enhancing network interoperability and efficiency.
OFC 2025 promises to be a landmark event, and NEC Labs America is at the forefront, driving next-generation optical networking, sensing technologies, and AI-powered innovations. Join us in San Francisco as we shape the future of optical communications. See all our #OFC25 activities below!
Open ROADM MSA SDN Integrated Demonstrations
Organizers: UT Dallas, Anritsu, AT&T, Ciena, Fujitsu, NEC, NTT Devices – America and NTT
This demonstration will showcase a multi-vendor Open ROADM MSA-compliant optical transport network with mesh topology turning dynamic multi-vendor SDN-controlled wavelength circuits up and down. The Open ROADM specifications and related YANG data models address Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs), transponders, ZR+ devices and pluggable optics with data rates up to 400G. Equipment from multiple suppliers is integrated into the same network solution and controlled by the open-source OpenDaylight TransportPCE controller. This open software and disaggregated hardware approach also interoperates with other standards, including OpenConfig-controlled devices and IOWN architecture.
Optical Communications Systems: Design and Design Trade-offs
Instructors: Ezra Ip, NEC Labs, USA, Chongjin Xie, Alibaba Group, USA
Course Level: Advanced Beginner
Topic Categories: S1, S5
SC203 400, 800Gb/s and Beyond
Sunday, March 30 8:30-12:30pm
https://www.ofcconference.org/library/images/ofc/2025/ofc2025_short_course_brochure.pdf
What Will Future Subsea Systems Look Like?
Organizers: Jeremie Renaudier (Lead), Nokia Bell Labs, France; Jean-Christophe Antona, Alcatel Submarine Networks Inc., France; Ezra Ip, NEC Laboratories America Inc., USA; Shikui Shen, China Unicom, China
Sunday, 30 March 13:00 – 15:30
https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/program-speakers/workshops/
Field Trials of Manhole Localization and Condition Diagnostics by Using Ambient Noise and Temperature Data With AI in a Real-Time Integrated Fiber Sensing System
Presenter: Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories America Inc., United States
M1C.1 Monday, 31 March 8:00 – 8:15
https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Monday
Field Tests of AI-Driven Road Deformation Detection Leveraging Ambient Noise Over Deployed Fiber Networks
Presenter: Tingfeng Li, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., United States
M1C.6 Monday, 31 March 9:30 – 9:45
https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Monday
DiffOptics: a Conditional Diffusion Model for Fiber Optics Sensing Data Imputation
Presenter: Zhuocheng Jiang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc, United States
M2C.1 Monday, 31 March 10:30 – 10:45
https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Monday
High Symbol Rates Transceivers
Presider: Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories America Inc., United States
Rooms 205-206
M3C Monday, 31 March 14:00 — 16:00
https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Monday
1.2 Tb/s/λ Real Time Mode Division Multiplexing Free Space Optical Communication With Commercial 400G Open and Disaggregated Transponders
Presenter: Giovanni Milione, NEC Laboratories America Inc., United States
M3D.4 Monday, 31 March 15:15 – 15:30
https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Monday
Generative AI for Distributed Acoustic Sensing Event Classification in Telecom Networks
Presenter: Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories America Inc., United States
M4A.6 Monday 31 March 18:10 – 18:30
https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Monday
Variable Temperature and Pump Power Semi-Analytical Gain Model for GFF-Embedded Single-Stage EDFAs
Presenter: Andrea D’Amico, NEC Laboratories America Inc., United States
Tu3E.5 Tuesday, 01 April 18:00 – 18:15
https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Tuesday
Optical Line System Physical Digital Model Calibration Using a Differential Algorithm
Presenter: Giacomo Borraccini, NEC Laboratories America Inc., United States
W1K.3 Wednesday, 02 April 8:30 – 8:45
https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Wednesday
Dual Privacy Protection for Distributed Fiber Sensing With Disaggregated Inference and Fine-Tuning of Memory-Augmented Networks
Presenter: Philip Ji, NEC Laboratories America Inc., United States
W1D.7 Wednesday, 02 April 9:45 – 10:00
https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Wednesday
Multi-Event Forward-Transmission Vibration Sensing With Dual-Sensor Adaptive Beamforming
Presenter: Jian Fang, NEC Laboratories America, United States
Th3F.5 Thursday, 03 April
Received Best Paper Award!
https://www.ofcconference.Saveorg/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Thursday#Thursday
A 12-spatial-channel WDM/SDM transmission over transoceanic distance | Coupled multi-core fiber helps pave the way to higher capacity submarine fiber optic cables
SAN DIEGO – Researchers have achieved wavelength/space-division multiplexed (WDM/SDM) transmission across a transoceanic distance of 7280 km with an unprecedented 12 spatial channels using a coupled multi-core fiber with a standard cladding diameter. This accomplishment opens new possibilities for increasing the capacity of current submarine cabling technology using fiber technology that doesn’t take up more space. This research, collaborated with NEC Corporation and NTT Corporation in Japan, will be presented by Manabu Arikawa from NEC Corporation at OFC, the premier global event for optical communications and networking, which will take place as a hybrid event 24 – 28 March 2024 at the San Diego Convention Center.
